A History of British Birds, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 2: With Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs [This chapter has been written for me by Mr. Charles Dixon, and is sufficiently elaborated to post my readers up in the questions which have arisen on this subject since it has been regarded from the evolutionist point of view. It is, of course, partly based upon Darwin (´Descent of Man,´ ii. p. 166) and Wallace (´Natural Selection,´ pp. 211, 231), who have endeavoured to explain, by the laws of Natural Selection, the facts (long ago remarked by Gloger and others) respecting the colour of eggs. The results of the investigation are not quite so satisfactory as might have been expected. There are so many cases which cannot be explained by protective selection, that the student, not being able in this instance to fall back upon sexual selection, is obliged to assume that many effects are the results of extinct causes. To my mind they are suggestive rather of other powerful factors in addition to protective and sexual selection. - H. S.] Oology has until lately been a much neglected science. Looked upon as an occupation which has for its object the mere collecting, labelling, and arranging in a cabinet the eggs of birds, or threading them on strings like beads, or, worse still, sticking them on cards in all kinds of fantastic patterns, egg-collecting has long been regarded as a schoolboy´s hobby and quite beneath the dignity of the man of science. But since the great discoveries of those illustrious naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace have placed the study of natural history on a different basis and completely revolutionized scientific research, oology may be said to have slowly risen from a schoolboy´s pastime or a collector´s craze to a science so fascinating and so instructive as to claim the careful attention of many of our ablest naturalists. Such hitherto despised objects as birds´ eggs have a tale to tell quite as interesting as that of any other object in the organic world; they have a history to reveal which assists in pointing out the line of march which organic life has taken from its earliest dawn to its present endless and varied ramifications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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